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The Secret Book of John
Samuel Zinner, edited by Mark M. Mattison; Other Gospels · Translated text
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Chapter 16 — Berlin Codex
1. Reflection of Light then concealed herself inside him, and in his desire, he wished to extract her from out of the rib, but she — Reflection of Light, because she is an entity that cannot be grasped —
2. even though the darkness chased after her, it could not lay hold of her. He wished to extract the power from out of him to make a mold once more, in the form of a woman, and he lifted ‹her› up in front of him, not the way Moses said, ‘He took a rib and created the woman next to him.’ Suddenly, he became sober from the inebriation of darkness.
3. ⟦page 60⟧ Reflection of Light raised the veil that lay over his mind. When he realized this, he immediately said, ‘This is surely bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
4. Therefore will the man leave his father and his mother, and he will cleave to his wife, and both of them will become one flesh,’ because the mother’s companion will be dispatched, and she will be rectified. Therefore, Adam gave her the name ‘the mother of all the living.’ By the sovereignty from on high, and by the revelation, Reflection instructed him in knowledge.